Delta’s focus on innovation has moved up a gear with the roll out of a new service which allows customers to keep track of their checked bags on its flights between London Heathrow to the United States via their mobile phones.

Delta Air Lines has reported financial results for the December quarter 2017, revealing an adjusted pre-tax income for the of $1 billion. The figure comes despite a $60 million impact from the combination of December’s power outage at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and storm Benji.

Japan Airlines has led the world in on-time performance, according to OAG, a provider of flight information. Some 85 per cent of the carrier’s flights arrived on time last year, closely followed by All Nippon Airways, with 84 per cent, and Delta Air Lines, on 83 per cent.

Power has been resorted at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after an electrical fault caused a partial shut-down on Sunday evening. Tens of thousands of passengers were delayed following the incident at the busiest airport in the world.

Delta Air Lines has created a new world first – an interactive billboard dispensing prosecco to Londoners in the run up to Christmas. The campaign has been built to celebrate Delta’s latest on-board main cabin offering of prosecco for its international customers.

Delta Air Lines has reinvented itself over the past decade, emerging from bankruptcy to become the preeminent American carrier. Poised to begin the next phase of its evolution with the introduction of the Airbus A350, Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole finds out more.

Delta Air Lines has scheduled its flagship A350-900 aircraft on one of four daily flights between Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. The new route will launch on March 31st next year.